Daily Builds are Your Friend
Joel Spolsky · Apress eBooks · 2004
In 1982, my family took delivery of the very first IBM-PC in Israel. We actually went down to the warehouse and waited while our PC was delivered from the port. Somehow, I convinced my dad to get the fully decked-out version, with two floppy disks, 128K memory, and both a dot-matrix printer (for fast drafts) and a Brother Letter-Quality Daisy Wheel printer, which sounds exactly like a machine gun when it is operating, only louder. I think we got almost every accessory available: PC-DOS 1.0, the $75 technical reference manual with a complete source code listing of the BIOS, Macro Assembler, and the stunning IBM Monochrome display with a full 80 columns and...lowercase letters! The whole thing cost about $10,000 including Israel’s then-ridiculous import taxes. Extravagant! These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.